Team Fortress 2 is Oculus Rift's first official game

Our pals at Engadget toured the Valve offices last week to check out virtual reality support in Team Fortress 2, something Valve programmer Joe Ludwig has been working on for quite a while now. Ludwig reveals that Team Fortress 2 will be Oculus Rift's first official game and that Valve will push a VR mode update to players "sometime within the next couple of weeks."

"This is a mode that everybody who has a Rift dev kit and access to Team Fortress 2 will be able to play, just on public and in the same servers that everybody else is playing in," Ludwig told Engadget. Initially, VR mode will be available to only Windows PC players – Mac OS X and Linux platforms are a possibility down the line, after Valve gets access to SDKs for those platforms. "We don't have a Mac or Linux SDK from Oculus quite yet, but once we get those, we'll get it ported over to those other platforms."

Ludwig will provide a talk on Valve's hurdles porting the free-to-play shooter over to virtual reality at GDC in San Francisco in two weeks. The Oculus Rift is an upcoming VR headset that was successfully funded through Kickstarter and ships to backers in April. Oculus Rift's 40 "pilot" dev kit prototypes will begin shipping this month and pre-orders are currently open through Oculus Rift's website.

Team Fortress 2 Info

Description

Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer shooting game bundled with Half-Life 2: The Orange Box and Half-Life 2: The Black Box, focuses on fast team-based action. With a selection of nine distinct character classes, teams clash across a multitude of different objective-based maps, which range from capture-the-flag to escort missions. Each class plays a vital role, such as the unparalleled speed of the Scout, the relentless firepower of a Heavy or stationary turrets set up by Engineers. In addition, the stylish cel shaded graphics set it apart from the competition. Look for the game this fall.